I feel like turning myself in to the internet police.
Well I feel like I about pushed a tooth out by planting my tongue so firmly in cheek, so I’d call it even.
Relevant:
Sure. Got any ideas?
I’ve got one!
But do we really want a distributed authenticated global reputation system? What compromises to our individual and collective freedoms would we need to make for such a thing to be effective and not trivially bypassed? How do we deal with energized and organized minority hategroups? What about weaponized shaming?
You can do an reputation system where there’s still masking between the on-line ID and the person behind it. Just because there’s single sign-on doesn’t mean my real name and address are exposed. As I mentioned upthread, Korea already does it with their SSN equivalent, though it’s not yet distributed across multiple games. But, that information is avaible - User A on system 1 SSN=X, User B on system 2 SSN=X ::: A==B.
All you need to do now is expose users on any system that have been flagged as problematic, and you can find their accounts on other systems. Just keep local system ID (User A) mapping to SSN on a 3rd party so that you can’t deanonymize users.
People have been thinking about how to hold user info in a centralized way where data can be kept anonymous but queryable for years. For example, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4060122/
Note that I didn’t talk about stalking/doxing-- it can be done somewhat anonymously at the service-level, although I question just how effective that would be given most peoples’ extremely poor operational security.
I’m kind of sick of these developer based pieces. Maybe they’ve seen an uptick in the last couple of years, but the toxicity in gaming has been toxic for years. Being called lazy is not kind and completely unnecessary, but I doubt we’d be talking about it if it stopped there. Death threats, rape, sexual harassment… this isn’t about the indie developers or developers being the enemy, this group does this to anyone they see that gets in the way of whatever it is that makes them enjoy this stuff.
There are no real consequences right now, but if there was I would not equate to someone saying someone else as lazy to someone saying you deserved to be raped and killed.
I am a big fan of centralized info but I don’t trust any of these companies to secure it. It would be hacked for giggles or actually targeting someone fairly quickly I think.
Not relevant, in my humble opinion.
There is someone going crazy and threatening someone over everything, but the majority of the cases talked about when it comes to developers are legit people unhappy with the product.
Every time a controversial game is released, there are people, even on this very forum, who try to play off every criticism of the game as a personal attack on the developer. Instead of someone being upset about an unfinished game being released and then not supported, it is an internet pile on or a hate mob.
I think inside we all understand that developers don’t release a shitty game because they are lazy, but at some point someone related to the game made a choice to release the game in a state people were not happy with. So someone is at fault and if it is a small company, it is really easy to point at the person who made that release choice.
I fail to see how death threats over a game having this feature or that feature is anything but sociopath assholery.
It’s not that, but maybe the person who wrote the article shouldn’t have spent so much time talking about his grandpa and being called lazy.
Death threats, doxing swatting etc are never acceptable but i also think its not really relevant as ive been in customer service over 40 years and assholes always have happened, also like .1 percent of people but its to your face or over the phone. Ive been told that I and my family should die of cancer (to my face) for only one example. You call security and have them escorted out, hang up on them, or shrug it off and grow a thick skin. Or you find another line of work. Not saying its acceptable but its not new. Now its all out there and instantaneous but definitely its not a new thing. If you are in any business customer related, its gonna happen. And if your customers are unhappy they have every right to communicate that, but not with death threats, Now in an online platform especially where you pay for it, publishers need to do more to weed out the bad players and personally they should be reporting it to the police if theres threats involved.
I went the opposite way LOL.